Indians at risk because of this new mobile banking virus: Check details

A new mobile banking virus is out there faking logo of popular apps like Chrome or Amazon and deceiving people into installing them. As informed by the country’s federal cyber security agency in its latest advisory, this new mobile banking Trojan virus -SOVA- can secretively encrypt an Android phone for ransom and is hard to uninstall.

According to the advisory, the new Trojan virus has upgraded to its fifth version after it was first detected in Indian cyberspace in July. The first version of the virus went or sale in the underground markets, last year in September 2021 when it could harvest usernames and passwords via keylogging, steal cookies and add false overlays to a range of apps.